March 6, 2016

Trump's list of enemies, from within America to Europe and the Middle East, makes him more attractive as a presidential candidate than the other buffoons on the stage. As strange as it sounds, he is the sanity vote in the 2016 presidential election.

The meltdown of the US Republican Party is an unlovely sight inside
the country, but what do people abroad think about the outlandish
assertions of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump?

Last week the Mufti of Egypt Shawqi Allam (maybe analogous to the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops) lit into Donald Trump’s positions on Muslims
in a meeting with representatives of Evangelical Christianity. He said
the billionaire bigot’s positions on banning Muslims were contrary to
the character of the American people, and that Muslim Americans were
part of the tapestry of Muslims worldwide. He had called on Muslims in
the US to integrate into American society and to obey national laws,
without losing their faith identity. In December his office expressed
alarm that Trump’s statements could increase tension (i.e. provoke
attacks) with regard to the millions of American Muslims.

Egyptian newspaper “al-Yawm al-Sabi`” (Seventh Day)
covered a poll that suggested that the main factor propelling the
Trump and Cruz campaigns to popularity among GOP voters is their hatred
for Muslims.